I thought the earth was supposed to be warming the most at the poles. Remember the polar bears? From these charts, it seems most of the warming is concentrated around the equator. I was kind of hoping Canada would warm a bit more.. bbrrrrrrr!

I imagine that if in 1910 someone had told my great grand parents that in a hundred years the global temperature will be about 0.7 degrees C warmer, they would have said, "And how are you going to measure that, fool?"

And if they could have imagined how their offspring would be living longer, healthier lives, enhanced by electric lights and appliances, medical technology, motor vehicles, air travel, satellite communications, etc etc etc, they would have said, "Sounds grand! Wish we could live to experience it."

The trouble with climate worriers is that they can't scare us without pretense of knowledge about the far future which ignores any possibility of technological advancement.

The irony, as always, is of course how Europe which will be among the least affected by climate change is the leader in the fight against it. A similar relationship seems to exist for other countries that have managed to significantly decrease their carbon emissions, mainly Japan and New Zealand.

"and by the end of the 21st century temperatures will be 3°C warmer than at the beginning of the industrial revolution." according to simulation models that so far have failed to accurately predict average global temperatures.